January 2020 – Newsletter – Smithfield
Happy New Year and welcome to the month of January!
The school will be closed on Tuesday December 31st and Wednesday January 1st in the celebration of the New Year. We would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday.
Welcome to our Stork’s Nest Family Miss Amber.
We would like to wish these staff members a very Happy Birthday:
Ms Alyssia 1/21 (Pre-K)
Ms Sabrina 1/29 (Pre-K)
Infant Room A and B:
Children gain awareness of how they relate to their family and community, understand social rules and responsibilities, and recognize and respect similarities and differences in people.
Children develop travel skills.
Family Engagement: Making winter art for the classroom
Student/Staff Birthdays: Logan~ 1/8/19, Lincoln~ 1/13/19, Cruz~ 1/18/19
Infant Room C:
Children explore the characteristics of objects and materials that are living, non-living, man-made, or naturally occurring.
Children demonstrate book awareness and knowledge of basic print conventions: they understand that print carries meaning and spoken words are represented by text.
Family Engagement: Snowman Family
Classroom Special Events: New Year’s Art
Student/Staff Birthdays: John~ 1/18
Crawler Room A and B:
Children show interest in and an understanding of a variety of literary experiences.
Children gain an appreciation for and participate in the creative arts.
Family Engagement: Bring in a favorite book to share with the class.
Younger Toddler Room A:
Use gestures, body language and/or vocalization to seek out help from a preferred adult.
Use short, telegraphic phrases (of one or two words) to communicate wants, needs, and thoughts.
Family Engagement: Cold hands, warm hearts mitten activity. Parents will paint child’s hand to leave their handprints on a paper heart.
Classroom Special Events: N/A.
Student/Staff Birthdays: Gianna~ 1/25/18
Younger Toddler Room B:
Children attend to. Understand, and respond to increasingly complex language. We will be working on some sign language.
Children notice and discriminate the sounds of spoken language. We will be learning new nursery rhymes for winter.
Family Engagement: Sending home winter hats cut outs to help your child decorate.
Classroom Special Events: N/A
Student/Staff Birthdays: Braydon~ 1/12/17
Older Toddlers Room:
To match simple geometric forms.
We will work on children successfully following two-step directions.
Family Engagement: Cut up scrap for our sensory bin.
Classroom Special Events: Tumble Bus – TBA
Student/Staff Birthdays: Greyson~1/12/17
Three’s Room:
Children explore the characteristics of objects and materials that are living, non-living, man-made, or naturally occurring. We will incorporate hibernation of animals as well.
Children recognize and identify letters and make letter-sound connections.
Family Engagement:
Classroom Special Events: ~ We will be having a classroom breakfast cooked by our friend Skylar’s Dad. Due to conflicting schedules, we needed to reschedule for this month. The new date coming!
Student/Staff Birthdays:
Fours Room:
Children recognize and identify letters and make letter sounds and connections.
Children develop number recognition and counting skills and learn the relationship between numbers and the quantity they represent.
Family Engagement: Hibernation lessons, introducing the water cycle. Endangered species & habitats.
Classroom Special Events: TBD
Student/Staff Birthdays: No birthdays this month!
Pre-K Classroom:
Children explore the characteristics of objects and materials that are living non-living, man-made, or naturally occurring. We will talk about some animals that hibernate/migrate.
Children engage in positive relationships and interactions with other children. We will discuss Dr. King’s message of peace and how we promote his lessons today within our classroom.
Family Engagement: Do You Want To Build A Snowman
Classroom Special Events: Parent/Teacher Conferences
Student/Staff birthdays:George~1/12, Ms Alyssia~ 1/21, Sierra~1/27, Ms Sabrina~1/29
